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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Cristiana De Filippis , Giuseppe Mingione

We consider the finite element discretization and the iterative solution of singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion equations in three-dimensional computational domains. These equations arise from the optimality conditions for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We consider the minimal discrete and continuous energy problems on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ in the presence of an external field due to finitely many localized charge distributions on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter D. Dragnev , Edward B. Saff , Robert S. Womersley

We consider Riesz-type nonlocal energies with general interaction kernels and their discretizations related to particle systems. We prove that the discretized energies $\Gamma$-converge in the weak-$*$ topology to the Riesz functional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Davide Carazzato , Aldo Pratelli , Ihsan Topaloglu

Riesz potentials are well known objects of study in the theory of singular integrals that have been the subject of recent, increased interest from the numerical analysis community due to their connections with fractional Laplace problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Xavier Claeys , Muhammad Hassan , Benjamin Stamm

We analyze a nonlocal coupled system arising as the Euler--Lagrange equations of an energy functional involving regional fractional Laplacians of orders $s_1$ and $s_2$ ($ 0 < s_1,s_2 < 1$), each acting on a separate disjoint domain and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Francisco Bersetche , Enrique Otarola , Daniel Quero

We study the computational complexity of exact cardinality-constrained minimum Riesz $s$-energy subset selection in finite metric spaces: given $n$ points, select $k<n$ points of minimum Riesz $s$-energy. The objective sums inverse-power…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Michael T. M. Emmerich , Ksenia Pereverdieva , André Deutz

On a smooth compact connected $d$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$, if $0 < s < d$ then an asymptotically equidistributed sequence of finite subsets of $M$ that is also well-separated yields a sequence of Riesz $s$-energies that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Paul Leopardi

The present study investigates a linear-quadratic Dirichlet control problem governed by a non-coercive elliptic equation posed on a possibly non-convex polygonal domain. Tikhonov regularization is carried out in an energy seminorm. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Arnd Rösch

Utilizing frameworks developed by Delsarte, Yudin and Levenshtein, we deduce linear programming lower bounds (as $N\to \infty$) for the Riesz energy of $N$-point configurations on the $d$-dimensional unit sphere in the so-called…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Douglas P. Hardin , Timothy J. Michaels , Edward B. Saff

Let $A$ be a compact $d$-rectifiable set embedded in Euclidean space $\RR^p$, $d\le p$. For a given continuous distribution $\sigma(x)$ with respect to $d$-dimensional Hausdorff measure on $A$, our earlier results provided a method for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. V. Borodachov , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff

For the Riesz kernel $\kappa_\alpha(x,y):=|x-y|^{\alpha-n}$ on $\mathbb R^n$, where $n\geqslant2$, $\alpha\in(0,2]$, and $\alpha<n$, we consider the problem of minimizing the Gauss functional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Natalia Zorii

We define renormalised energies for maps that describe the first-order asymptotics of harmonic maps outside of singularities arising due to obstructions generated by the boundary data and the mutliple connectedness of the target manifold.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Antonin Monteil , Rémy Rodiac , Jean Van Schaftingen

We analyze space-time finite element methods for the numerical solution of distributed parabolic optimal control problems with energy regularization in the Bochner space $L^2(0,T;H^{-1}(\Omega))$. By duality, the related norm can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

Minimum Riesz energy problems in the presence of an external field are analyzed for a condenser with touching plates. We obtain sufficient and/or necessary conditions for the solvability of these problems in both the unconstrained and the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 P. D. Dragnev , D. Hardin , E. B. Saff , N. Zorii

In this article we study point configurations minimizing the discrete energy on a compact Riemannian manifold, where the energy kernel is taken to be the Green's function for the Laplacian. We show that every point in a minimizing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Juan G. Criado del Rey

A mesh-free numerical method for solving linear elliptic PDE's using the local kernel theory that was developed for manifold learning is proposed. In particular, this novel approach exploits the local kernel theory which allows one to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Faheem Gilani , John Harlim

This is the first of two papers which study asymptotic behavior of minimal energy solutions to the fractional Lane-Emden system in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ \[(-\Delta)^s u = v^p, \quad (-\Delta)^s v = u^q \text{ in } \Omega \quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Woocheol Choi , Seunghyeok Kim

Recent years have seen the emergence of nonlinear methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). While these approaches often perform well in practice, their theoretical analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Alexandre Magueresse , Santiago Badia

For a compact $ d $-dimensional rectifiable subset of $ \mathbb{R}^{p} $ we study asymptotic properties as $ N\to\infty $ of $N$-point configurations minimizing the energy arising from a Riesz $ s $-potential $ 1/r^s $ and an external field…

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